The first book I ever wrote was the Oracle Designer 2000 Handbook (1999, Oracle Press) Peter Koletzke was my co-author. Probably the biggest “ah ha!” moment for me was the realization that the tools you use have a HUGE impact…

This article by Paul Dorsey was part of a presentation given in 2012 at the IOUG Collaborate conference. With the popularity of Object-Oriented (OO) technology and web-based development at the turn of the century, we moved into a world with more questions than answers. The open…

I start my day reading Seth Godin’s blog, every day, for maybe two years now. His posts are short and often they are obvious truths. But I read them long enough that they got me to fear less, deliver more, and…

I suspect that most software products have their origins as a project. We are seeing the birth of such a product so I thought I would blog about it. Earlier I wrote a couple of posts about our next generation…

OK, sure, if you write a query that takes 10 minutes, then your performance is going to be terrible. But of all the systems I have seen, usually there is somebody around who can both detect a long running query…

I am not a big fan of boring, mind numbing, repetitive tasks. I remember my early days working with word processors and spreadsheets. If you needed to do a task more than about 10 times, it usually made sense to…

Anyone can make a tree display, but tree navigation involves much more. What you really want on a tree includes all of the following: 1. Only load nodes that are necessary. 2. Provide the option to reload every time the tree…

Paul Dorsey and Michael Rosenblum published this article in the IOUG Web Architecture Best Practices Booklet (Collab’09 edition) in 2009. The Introduction is below: Many of the performance tuning techniques applied to client/server applications that consisted of rewriting poorly written SQL code and tuning the database…

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